Here's a link to my first animation project for 2d animation. It might take a minute to load
This is just a collection of the beginner projects I created while in my class for animation. Everything was done in flash, except certain elements were made with either adobe Photoshop cs4 or Illustrator cs4
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This is my mock up for a non-profit farm that my web 2 class is doing a site redesign for. It's a local historic farm in Parma, oh. I decided to go with the rustic look, I also thought a simple navigation would be good for the site's audience. I built this mock up using Adobe Fireworks cs4 and PhotoShop cs4
So, I just downloaded one of the newest programs in the adobe library, Flash Catalyst. I have to say I like it. It's a program to help designers and developers stream line flash application development.
As a designer I can create a mock up of my application in illustrator or photoshop and transfer it over with all the layers to Catalyst. Then from within Catalyst, I can add interactivity, motion effects, transitions, etc. A designer can create an almost fully functioning app. On the developer side, this catalyst creation can be brought into Flash Builder 4 and add additional code and functionality.
I started doing some side research on my own about php. What I found so far is, PHP is installed on over 20 million websites and 1 million web servers. It is a server side scripting language for making dynamic and interactive Web pages. It's used for controling databases such as MySQL, Informix, Oracle, Sybase, Solid, PostgreSQL, Generic ODBC. PHP files can contain text, HTML tags and scripts and it's files are returned to the browser as plain HTML.
PHP stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.
I looked into copyright laws concerning web designers and artists in general and I think my head might explode from reading too much legalese. But it seems to me, the best thing an artist can do is retain ownership of their art even if it is created for someone else. When we as designers create a site or piece of art for a client, we should hold on to the copyright for said idea. This way if our idea becomes a billion dollar piece of branding that a company uses, we're entitled to a piece of the pie. Designing a site and elements for a site, web designers should keep ownership of almost everything such as php pages, javascript, pngs, etc. this
